It is deeply disheartening…

It is deeply disheartening to me that this bill is even being considered. Have you consulted your local Indigenous communities and Elders? It is shameful to claim that we as a country are working towards reconciliation, and then continue to exclude the Indigenous peoples from caretaking of the land, which they have done for centuries. Also, this bill fails to acknowledge the mutually reinforcing relationship between environmental thriving and economic success. Industries like tourism heavily rely on the beauty of Canadian nature. The exploitative companies that are pushing for this bill will fail once there is nothing left to exploit. And they will take us down with them. To quote our own government on its official website, “Our economies are embedded in nature, not external to it.”. It is very hypocritical to have two sections of the government working against one another, and it breeds the image of Canada as unstable. We as people and as Canadians cannot survive if there is no nature to support us. By failing our natural earth and planet, and our endangered species, we are also harming ourselves. I would not like for myself and our future generations to be set up for failure by a government that claims to prioritize the health of our land. Many communities already suffer the consequences of climate change, it will be harder to turn a blind eye when it is your community that is suffering. Do not pass Bill 5.